All 4 Uses of
brusque
in
The Fountainhead
- Some were brusque, and the sharpness of their voices seemed to say that they needed good draftsmen, they always needed good draftsmen, but this qualification could not possibly apply to him, and would he please refrain from being rude enough to force them to express it more plainly.†
Chpt 1.8
- She turned brusquely and left the quarry.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- He did not need to see the caption or the brusque signature in the corner of the sketch; he knew that no one else had conceived that house and he knew the manner of drawing, serene and violent at once, the pencil lines like high-tension wires on the paper, slender and innocent to see, but not to be touched.†
Chpt 2.4
- She shook the flame off the match with a brusque little jerk of her wrist and she dropped the match into an ash tray on a table beside her.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(brusque) abrupt (sudden and quick -- without taking the time to be friendly)